Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First black umpire...
...black pitchers to have won a World Series game...
...death of a forgotten man" story. In "A Distance of a Half a Kilometer," a nondescript man dies at his dinnertable, his face plopping forward into a bowl of pea soup. Not as cosmically reverbrating as, say, Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," this story has a black-and-white bluntness that sheds a fascinating glare on its subject...
...early 60s a white Red Sox pitcher convinced his black teammate to jump the team and fly to a foreign country. Name the players and the country. What happened to them...
...walked into the bar down the street the next night and shook hands with another tall person. This one, Bill, had a head of black fuzzy hair and dark glasses. I am sure that he tried to crush my hand in his. I could barely sense the bones in his hand for all the fleshy padding on his palm...